A77976:715
The Evil of Evils
The eighth book of Mr Jeremiah Burroughs. Being a treatise of the evil of evils, or the exceeding sinfulness of sin. Wherein is showed, 1 There is more evil in the least sin, than there is in the greatest affliction. 2 Sin is most opposite to God. 3 Sin is most opposite to mans good. 4 Sin is opposite to all good in general. 5 Sin is the poison, or evil of all other evils. 6 Sin hath a kind of infiniteness in it. 7 Sin makes a man conformable to the Devil. All these several heads are branched out into very many particulars. / Published by Thomas Goodwin, William Bridge, Sydrach Simpson, William Adderly, [double brace] William Greenhil, Philip Nigh, John Yates.The eighth book of Mr Jeremiah Burroughs. Being a treatise of the evil of evils, or the exceeding sinfulness of sin. Wherein is shewed, 1 There is more evil in the least sin, than there is in the greatest affliction. 2 Sin is most opposite to God. 3 Sin is most opposite to mans good. 4 Sin is opposite to all good in general. 5 Sin is the poyson, or evil of all other evils. 6 Sin hath a kind of infiniteness in it. 7 Sin makes a man conformable to the Devil. All these several heads are branched out into very many particulars. / Published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Bridge, Sydrach Sympson, William Adderly, [double brace] William Greenhil, Philip Nye, John Yates.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1654
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
R Rebellion Sin is rebellion 45 Report Martyrs have a good report 6 Repentance —A continual act 89 Resist Sin resists God, how 42 Revenge Let out revenge upon sin 317 ⟨image 241⟩Root All sin comes from the same root 43 Rejoice Saints rejoice not in sin 16 Saints rejoice in affliction ibid Redemption Sin wrongs Christ in his work of Redemption 70 Restore Ill gotten goods must be restored 432, 433, 434, 435 Restitution —According to the nature of the wrong 497
R Rebellion Sin is rebellion 45 Report Martyrs have a good report 6 Repentance —A continual act 89 Resist Sin resists God, how 42 Revenge Let out revenge upon sin 317 ⟨image 241⟩Root All sin comes from the same root 43 Rejoyce Saints rejoyce not in sin 16 Saints rejoyce in affliction ibid Redemption Sin wrongs Christ in his work of Redemption 70 Restore Ill gotten goods must be restored 432, 433, 434, 435 Restitution —According to the nature of the wrong 497
S Satisfy Sin denies good in God to satisfy the soul 58 Serviceable No good thing ought to be Serviceable to sin 27 Seed Sin the seed of evil 293 Grace the seed of good ibid Shame Shame better than sin 6, 7 Sin brings shame 303, 304, 305 Why Sinners not ashamed 306 Sufferings —Of Martyrs 5 The red glass of Christs sufferings 124 More in Christs sufferings than in any 134 Speak —For God 104, 105 Strength —Of Christ 133 Sin the strength of all evil 328, 329 Striving Striving against God, what 42 Striking Sin is a striking at God 50 Spirit Sin wrongs the Spirit of God 71 Sweat Christs sweat 128 Strictness Strictness of Gods people justified 448 Stubbornness Stubbornness distinguished from ⟨image 242⟩from Conscientiousness 452 Separate What separates men for God 291 What separates men from God 292 Slave, vide Subject Soul Christs Soul sufferings 401 Sorrow Christs sorrow 125 Sin —More evil than any misery 3, &c. —A heavy Thing 7 —A Non-Entitie 11 —No good in the being of it ibid —It is cause of no good 12 —It comes not from good 13 —No good annexed to it 14 —No good of Promise ibid —Of Evidence ibid —Of Blessing 15 Sin is Opposite to all good 319 Sin in its self is misery 354 Sin sells the soul to the devil 367 —Turns the soul into a Devil 368 Sensible Some more sensible of affliction than sin 528 Sinner Every sinner guilty of all the sins in the World 362 Succession —Of Sin 362, 363 Subject Difference between a Slave, and a Subject 366